The Dashavatara Temple is an early 6th century Lord Vishnu Hindu temple located at Deogarh, about 125 kilometers from Jhansi, in the Betwa River valley. It is one of the earliest Hindu stone temples still surviving today. Built in the Gupta Period, the Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh shows the ornate Gupta style architecture. It has a simple, one cell square plan. The Temple was built out of stone and masonry brick. Legends associated with Vishnu are sculpted in the interior and exterior walls of the temple. Also carved are secular scenes and amorous couples in various stages of courtship and intimacy. The Deogarh Karnali fort built in early 13th-century is close to the temple. The fort has several Jain temples, and the Dashavatara temple is the only Hindu monument in the area. The Dashavatara temple has a high plinth (jagati) and is set with a basement porch. The temple provides steps in the center of all sides of the platform to let devotees enter the temple from all four directions. The temple faces west, with slight deviation to the south that enables the setting sun's rays to fall on the main idol in the temple. The plinth is square with a 16.9m side. Each corner of the platform has a 3.4m square projection with remnants of a shrine. The plinth is molded in four parallel friezes, each molding about 0.29m thick. Above the four moldings, rectangular panels separated by pilasters ran all along the plinth with friezes narrating Hindu texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The platform has a nine squares layout. The surviving Vishnu temple is in the middle square. The sanctum is a square with 5.6m side. Its doorway is intricately carved with reliefs. The images on the top of the lintel of the sanctum and walls show Vishnu and Lakshmi, flanked by Shiva, Parvati, Indra, Kartikeya, Ganesha, Brahma and others.